Your collection, online, in minutes.
Qintessential is a ready-made public or private website for museums, archives and private collections. Works, artists, archive hierarchies, and themes, all published straight from your Qi CMS, with nothing to build.
And something no collections site usually offers: visitors sign in, save works, and build portfolios of their own to annotate, export and share.
Browse, search, filter.
Faceted listings for every record type, with stable URLs, sort options, bookmarking and a search that reads every published field.
Works
All the details, at a glance.
Any number of image (with their credit lines), the fields you choose to publish, linked artists, themes and keywords — and the two actions that matter: enquire, or save it.
Artists & makers.
Every name in the catalogue gets a page of its own: dates, biography, and all their works, assembled automatically, never maintained twice.
Artists
Themes tell the story.
Group works into experiences with their own description and cover, then let visitors walk the collection in a curated way.
Themes
Sign in. Save works. Share a portfolio.
Visitors create a profile in seconds, bookmark works as they browse, group them into named portfolios, choose which fields to show, then export a PDF or share a link. Curators, teachers and researchers stop screenshotting your site and start citing it.
Sign in
Hierarchies, not just grids.
Fonds, series, boxes and items keep their structure and reference codes online. Seamlessly browse finding aids and individual items.
Correspondence, exhibition files and photographs documenting four generations of collecting, 1878–1994.
Everything in the template.
Nine capabilities every collections site needs, built once and maintained for everyone — you choose type, colour and layout.
One catalogue behind it all.
Qintessential is the publishing layer on Qi, Keepthinking's collections management system, used by museums, archives, libraries and private estates worldwide. Cataloguing, media, rights and loans stay in Qi; Qintessential is a live view of them. Publish a correction at 11am and it is live at 11am.
Already on Qi? Qintessential can launch on your existing data, with no migration.
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